Research

Ongoing projects

“Multinational Networks and Trade Participation” (with Glenn Magerman, Fabrizio Leone, and Catherine Thomas). 

“Politically Motivated Trade Protection” (with Chad Bown, Aksel Erbahar, and Lorenzo Trimarchi).

“A Political Disconnect? Evidence From Votes on EU Trade Agreements?” (with Florin Cucu, Federico Gallina, and Mattia Nardotto). Preliminary version.

“Cross-Border Lobbying: How Multinationals Shape Deep Trade Policies” (with Michael Blanga-Gubbay, In Song Kim, and Mathieu Parenti).  Abstract.

“Trade Within Multinational Boundaries” (with Laura Alfaro, Fariha Kamal, Zachary Kroff, and Natalia Ramondo). 

“Lobbying and Counter-Lobbying on Trade Protection” (with Aksel Erbahar, Elisa Navarra, and Lorenzo Trimarchi).

“Trade Agreements and the Relationship between Global and Domestic Supply Chains” (with Emmanuel Dhyne, Fabrizio Leone, Glenn Magerman, and Catherine Thomas).

Selected publications

“Lobbying for Globalization” (with Michael Blanga-Gubbay and Mathieu Parenti). Previously circulated as “Globalization For Sale.” CEPR Discussion Paper 14597. Featured in a column on VoxEU and on ProMarket. Conditionally accepted for publication in the Economic Journal.

“Come Together: Firm Boundaries and Delegation” (with Laura Alfaro, Nick Bloom, Harald Fadinger, Patrick Legros, Andy Newman, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen), CEPR Discussion Paper 12923 and NBER Working Paper 24597. Featured in a column on VoxEU.  Journal of the European Economic Association 22 (2024), 34–72.

“The Tyranny of the Single Minded: Guns, Environment, and Abortion” (with Laurent Bouton, Francisco Pino and Maurizio Zanardi). Review of Economics and Statistics 103 (2021), 48-59. Featured in a column on ProMarket and Academic Times. 

“The Pursuit of Non-Trade Policy Objectives in EU Trade Policy” (with Ingo Borchert, Mattia Di Ubaldo, and Cristina Herghelegiu). World Trade Review 20 (2021), 1-25. Featured in a column on VoxEU.

“EU Trade Agreements: To Mix or not to Mix, That is the Question” (with Cristina Herghelegiu and Laura Puccio). Journal of World Trade 55 (2021), 231-260.

“The Gravity of Intermediate Goods” (with Afrola Plaku and Glenn Magerman). Review of Industrial Organization 57 (2020), 223–243 (special issue on global value chains). 

“The Political Economy of Trade and Migration: Evidence from the U.S. Congress” (with Giovanni Facchini, Max Steinhardt and Maurizio Zanardi), Economics & Politics 32 (2020), 250-278. Feautured in a column on VoxEU.

“Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis” (with Laura Alfaro, Pol Antras, and Davin Chor),  Journal of Political Economy 127 (2019), 508-559. Online Appendix. Featured in a column on VoxEU.

“From Final Goods to Inputs: The Protectionist Effect of Preferential Rules of Origin” (with Manuel García Santana, Laura Puccio, and Roberto Venturini), American Economic Review 108 (2018), 2335-2365. Online Appendix. Data and supplementary materials. Featured in a  column on VoxEU, the LSE blog and LSE CentrePiece.

“Do Prices Determine Vertical Integration?” (with Laura Alfaro, Harald Fadinger and Andrew Newman), Review of Economic Studies 83 (2016), 1-35 [Lead article]. Featured in a column on VoxEU. 

“Electoral Incentives, Term Limits, and the Sustainability of Peace” (with Nicolas Sahuguet and Maurizio Zanardi), European Journal of Political Economy 51 (2018) 15-26.

“Suspiciously Timed Trade Disputes” (with David deRemer, Georg Kirchsteiger, Lorenzo Trimarchi and Maurizio Zanardi), Journal of International Economics 105 (2017), 57-76. Featured on The Washington Post, on Fortune, and in a column on VoxEU. 

“The Internationalization Process of Firms: from Exports to FDI” (with André Sapir and Maurizio Zanardi), Journal of International Economics 99 (2016), 16-30.

“Democratic Peace and Electoral Accountability” (with Nicolas Sahuguet and Maurizio Zanardi), Journal of the European Economic Association 12 (2014), 997-1028. Featured in a column on VoxEU and reviewed by Matthew O. Jackson on NAJ Economics.

“Policymakers’ Horizon and Trade Reforms: the Protectionist Effect of Elections” (with Giovanni Facchini and Maurizio Zanardi). Journal of International Economics 94 (2014), 102-118. Featured on The Economist and on Fortune. 

For the data and codes used in this paper click here.

“Special and Differential Treatment of Developing Countries in the WTO” (with Carlo Perroni). World Trade Review 14 (2014), 67-86.

“Multi-Trait Matching and Gender Differentials in Intergenerational Mobility” (with Natalie Chen and Carlo Perroni). Economics Letters 120 (2013), 292-296. 

“Fast Track Authority and International Trade Negotiations” (with Giovanni Facchini and Maurizio Zanardi), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 4 (2012), 146-189. Featured in a column on VoxEU.

“Trade Liberalization and Organizational Change” (with Patrick Legros and Andrew Newman), Journal of International Economics 86 (2012), 197-208.

“Conditional versus Unconditional Trade Concessions for Developing Countries” (with Carlo Perroni). Canadian Journal of Economics 45 (2012), 613-631.

“Do Credible Domestic Institutions Promote Credible International Agreements?” (with Carlo Perroni), Journal of International Economics 79 (2009), 160-170.

“Policymakers’ Horizon and the Sustainability of International Cooperation” (with Nicolas Sahuguet), Journal of Public Economics 93 (2009), 549-558.

“Is Partial Tax Harmonization Desirable?” (with Carlo Perroni and Ray Riezman), Journal of Public Economics 92 (2008), 254-267.

“Green Lobbies and Transboundary Pollution in Large Open Economies,” Journal of International Economics 59 (2003), 399-422.

“Issue Linkage and Issue Tie-in in International Negotiations” (with Carlo Perroni), Journal of International Economics 57 (2002), 423-447.

Other articles and working papers

“Guns and Votes” (with Laurent Bouton, Francisco Pino and Maurizio Zanardi), CEPR Discussion Paper 9726 and NBER Working Paper 20253. Featured in a column on VoxEU, in The Economist, and in a column on ProMarket.

"Argentina — Measures Affecting the Importation of Goods: How a Porsche is Worth Peanuts "(with Harm Schepel), World Trade Review 16 (2017), Volume 16, 349-369.

“EC—Seal Products: The Tension between Public Morals and International Trade Agreements ” (with Tania Voon), World Trade Review 15 (2016), 211-234.

“EC – IT Products” (with Robert Howse), World Trade Review 11 (2012), 223-255.

“Trading Cultures:  Appellate Body Report on China – Audiovisuals” (with Joost Pauwelyn), World Trade Review 10 (2011), 95-118.

 “India – Additional and Extra-Additional Duties on Imports from the United States” (with Jan Wouters), World Trade Review 9 (2010), 265-272.

“Comment: Japan – CVDs on DRAMs from Korea”, World Trade Review 8 (2009), 273-277.

“Comment: EC – Export Subsidies on Sugar”, World Trade Review 7 (2008), 1-4.

“Does Migration Empower Married Women?” (with Natalie Chen and Carlo Perroni), older version available as CEPR Discussion Paper No. 5559.

 “Women’s Earning Power and the “Double Burden” of Market and Household Work” (with Natalie Chen and Carlo Perroni), older version available as CEPR Discussion Paper No. 6269.

“Self-Enforcing International Agreements and Domestic Policy Credibility” (with Carlo Perroni), CESifo Working Paper No. 988.

“Intergenerational Mobility of Migrants: Is There a Gender Gap?” (with Natalie Chen and Carlo Perroni), The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series No. 815. 

Collective volume articles

“Green and Producer Lobbies: Competition or Alliance?” in S. M. Murshed (ed.), Issues in Positive Political Economy. London, U.K. and New York, N.Y.: Routledge Publishers, 2002.

“Conditionality, Separation, and Open Rules in Multilateral Institutions” (with Carlo Perroni),  in J.C. Hartigan (ed.), Handbook of International Trade: Economic and Legal Analysis of Laws and Institutions. Oxford, U.K. and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2005. 

“The EU Common Commercial Policy and Global/Regional Trade Regulation,” in M. Telò (ed.), The European Union and Global Governance. Routledge Publishers, 2009.

Recently organized and upcoming conferences

Fifth Conference of CEPR Research Network on Global Value Chains, Trade and Development, Brussels, May 14-15, 2020 (with Mathieu Parenti, Gonzague Vannoorenberghe and Daria Taglioni). 

Fourth Conference of CEPR Research Network on Global Value Chains, Trade and Development, Santiago de Chile, January 12-13, 2018 (with Daria Taglioni and Viviana Araneda).

Third Conference of CEPR Research Network on Global Value Chains, Trade and Development, Singapore, May 19-20, 2017 (with Daria Taglioni).

Second Conference of CEPR Research Network on Global Value Chains, Trade and Development, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, September 22-23, 2016 (with Richard Baldwin and Daria Taglioni).

First Conference of CEPR Research Network on Global Value Chains, Trade and Development, World Bank, Washington DC, March 30-31, 2016.

Conference on Policy Challenges for Europe and the World in honor of André Sapir, ECARES, October 3, 2014.  

Workshop on Global Fragmentation of Production and Trade Policy, ECARES, September 25-26, 2014.

Workshop on Dispute Settlement in the WTO, ECARES, September 19-20, 2013.